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Noun: worldliness  wurld-lee-nus
  1. The quality or character of being intellectually sophisticated and worldly through cultivation or experience or disillusionment
    - sophistication, mundaneness, mundanity
     
  2. Concern with worldly affairs to the neglect of spiritual needs
    "he disliked the worldliness of many bishops around him"

Derived forms: worldlinesses

See also: worldly

Type of: externality, outwardness, quality

Antonym: otherworldliness

Nearest

world war
World War 1
World War 2
World War I
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World Wide Web
world-beater
world-beating
world-class
world-famous
worldliness
worldling
worldly
worldly belongings
worldly concern
worldly good
worldly goods
worldly possession
worldly possessions
worldly-minded
worldly-wise